IN-PERSON

Middle East CIO Executive Summit

30 September 2024 | Fairmont Riyadh

30 September 2024
Fairmont Riyadh

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Collaborate with your peers

Get together with Middle East's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:

Create Alignment with Business to Demonstrate IT & Security’s True Value

Unlock AI’s Potential through Trust, Leadership Buy-In and Governance

Converging IT & Digital Transformation to Increase Operational Efficiencies

Middle East CIO Governing Body


The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.

Governing Body Co-Chairs

Saud Al Dhawyani

Emirates NBD
CTO

Khalid AlMutairi

Maaden
CIO

Sabri Albreiki

Etisalat
Group CIO & CTO

Carlo Nizam

Emirates Global Aluminum
Chief Digital Officer

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CIO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Middle East CIO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda


Keynote Sessions

Embedding Sustainability into IT Strategy to Achieve Organisational Goals

More information coming soon!

Keynote hosted by Palo Alto Networks

More information coming soon!


Executive Boardroom Sessions

Threat Intelligence and Third-Party Risk — Doubling Down on Critical Vulnerabilities

The complete entanglement of cyber risk with business risk is becoming increasingly visible. CISOs now have an opportunity to better pinpoint third parties that present a threat to the organisation. Yet the increasing complexities of third party, and even fourth party, risk management, prompted by a wide range of evolving threats, demands heightened attention. How can CISOs ensure they have a clear overview of the threat landscape and vulnerabilities across ecosystems and supply chains?

Join this session to discuss:

  • Identification of vulnerabilities across your vendor landscape to prioritise response efforts
  • Best practices for mitigating a new wave of sophisticated attacks to keep assets safe
  • The role threat intelligence plays in risk management strategies to safeguard your digital ecosystem

Analysing Your Application Infrastructure Strategy to Enhance Efficiency

Applications can make or break an organisation’s growth. Too many and you create opportunity for inefficiencies; too few and you risk being behind the curve. How can CIOs evolve their application infrastructure to streamline processes and maximise business value?

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss strategies to:

  • Build a business case to rationalise technology and increase resource allocation
  • Create agile IT architecture to evolve with ever-changing business objectives
  • Communicate change and value of applications to senior stakeholders

Demonstrating IT’s Business Value to Enable Digital Objectives

With focus on cost efficiency and achieving ambitious digital objectives, CIOs must strengthen the strategic partnership with the business. By showcasing how IT tools can solve business problems and investing in technology capabilities that support business goals, IT leaders demonstrate their role as business enabler.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Matching the IT roadmap to a business challenge to demonstrate IT’s value
  • Translate the value of IT to the board to increase investment in technology
  • Empower and engage with users to foster a culture of IT ownership and collaboration

Managing Compliance at a Global Scale to Achieve Resilience

New regulations coupled with an evolving attack landscape are resulting in governments and regulatory bodies across the GCC having more oversight of cybersecurity incidents than ever before. CISOs must navigate regulatory compliance at local, regional and global level. In this session, IT security leaders will discuss regulatory insights and challenges and strategies for effective compliance.

Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss:  

  • Strategies to comply with different regulations on a global scale
  • Best practices for compliance, risk assessment methodologies and security controls
  • Methods to balance emerging regulations such as SDAIA Data Protection and DIFC Digital Assets Law

Optimising Employee & Customer Experience with Automation & AI

Quality employee and customer experiences are integral to maintaining a competitive edge. CIOs and CISOs are focusing on automation and AI to transform digital experiences. By automating IT & Security processes and leveraging data to drive decisions, CIOs & CISOs can reimagine the digital workspace and create lasting value for the bottom line.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Leveraging technologies to enhance and streamline user experience
  • Using automation for scaling self-service experiences while reducing costs
  • Developing techniques for solving real world business problems with AI


We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering


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Fairmont Riyadh
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Community Programme Manager


For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Michabelle Fahed

Community Programme Manager

+971 58 634 0248

michabelle.fahed@gartner.com